This is my first attemp to doing an AAR. Blam0 will add his thoughts during the turns. No secret information will be passed,just some results and comentary.
I play Japan and Blam0 is the allies. We played scenero 15 and got to aug 42 before this restart.
We play 2 day turns
FOW on
Sub Doctrine off
+/- 15days reinforements
Allied damage control on
Dec 7th surprise on
Weather on
plane upgrades on
House rules for turn 1
Japan only port attack at PH
ASW task forces limited to 8-10 ships
Allies can only give orders TF already at sea.
The first turn was pretty much historical and attacked some places that already had orders given.
Adjusted PH attack all Kate groups attack port,5of6 Val groups attack AF other attacked port. fighters only provided escort and cap. Did not want to waste zero's destroying planes on the ground. Always better to kill pilots with the planes.
Stayed around and attacked 2nd day.
Results were 1BB sunk(WV) other 7 pretty banged up and even got a couple of DD's hit the St.Louis and San Fransisco.
On the 1st day got torp rolls on 3 of the Kates WV took 10 torp hits. The 2nd day all 800kgs, and with the reduced Magazine explosions no other perment sinks but beat up some other ships in port.
Plastered Clark and beat up Sinapore. All the regular invasions in PI and Maylaya.
Did not invade Wake on the first turn but sent the bombardment force that is scheduled to hit Guam. Made my first admin mistake, do not turn off escorts bombard and Wake beat up 3 good destroyers.
Air counter attacks by allies as you would expect pretty ineffectual, plus i capped some of the TF and got a couple of extra bombers.
In China working out a plan not to get caught in the stalemate that I did in our first game. In that one had WWI type sieges in Yehen, Changsha and Canton. Moved into Hong Kong and started attack.
In the production part, I looked at everybodies idea's and added some of my own. I did not over produce like i did in the first one. Ran very low on supply and attacks bogged down. Turned off some obsolete plane instead of replaceing. Will change as supply builds back up. Did increase A6M2, never can have too many zeros in the 1st 6 mo. I think the upgrade on the air craft will make it eaiser to manage production, it will just take more thought.
Changed AK into 12 AR's,3 MLE's and added a couple of AV's. I wish we could change some ships to AD's.
12/1141
Did follow up on my attacks on PI and Maylaya, allies tried a shock attack on my force that entered Yenen and he got a bloody nose. moved AC around and getting ready to pounce in the up comming week. Sunk some ships trying to get out of manilia. My brave jake pilots had bunches of nearby transports to attack but they went after a 4 stacker without results.
Damaged ships moving away from Wake and KB off somewhere unknown by Blam0. Plan to be more aggresive with the KB this time.
PI and maylaya landings continue, do not plan to send invasion forces everywhere without support.
I don't understand how you can really invade Kendari or southern borneo with out support. They would have most likely been massacred IRL, in some AAR's they are.
More action up coming later in the week. Here that Blam0[:D][:D]
When I get better at adding pictures maybe this AAR will look a little better. There is no way I could reproduce the likes of Thyane or Code purple intercepts.
Thanks for visting[:)]
Sadja
"A Clash of Cultures"Blam0vrs Sadja
Moderators: wdolson, Don Bowen, mogami
"A Clash of Cultures"Blam0vrs Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: "A Clash of Cultures"Blam0vrs Sadja
Well Sadja pretty much summed it up. Clark and Pearl airfields really took a pounding. That second day did a number on the AC. Looks like WV will be the only BB loss from Pearl. Several other ships took a real pounding, but they will fight again ...in this war even.
I was able to sneak out Force Z, and am now plotting its use/demise as the case may be.
I was hoping to catch the Jap units fatigued/disrupted with those Shock Attacks, and it really cost me. I'm working on a strategy to completely tie up Sadja a la WWI. [8D]
Little KB seems to be MIA, which is cause for some concern.
My crack Allied intel is already revealing the Japanese position for what it is, discovering (by radio transmission) the secret Japanese base on Truk!! [:)]
Seems that someone also left Computer Sub Ops on too...[8|][8|] Though I'm not entirely sure how this could hurt the Allies.
I was able to sneak out Force Z, and am now plotting its use/demise as the case may be.
I was hoping to catch the Jap units fatigued/disrupted with those Shock Attacks, and it really cost me. I'm working on a strategy to completely tie up Sadja a la WWI. [8D]
Little KB seems to be MIA, which is cause for some concern.
My crack Allied intel is already revealing the Japanese position for what it is, discovering (by radio transmission) the secret Japanese base on Truk!! [:)]
Seems that someone also left Computer Sub Ops on too...[8|][8|] Though I'm not entirely sure how this could hurt the Allies.
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RE: "A Clash of Cultures"Blam0vrs Sadja
12/11-13/41
Some action heating up in PI,Aparri,Vigainfell,Naga and Legaspi invaded and others on the way. Some success with ASW forces. The most potent weopen my arsenal has become the jake floatplan. I've got some other plans for the mini KB and have used the CS and AV ships for naval attacks. 60kg bombs rain from the sky[:D][:D][:D].
China
The shock attack at Yenen on the previous turn by the Chinese left them weak and my counter shock attack drove them out of Yenen just before the reinforcements arrive. I hold Yenen and recovered a large amount of supplies. This has got to hurt Blam0 there. The lack of air support units do cause a problem in China for me to really hold air control. Down south Blam0 sent his 2 large forces toward Canton, but I have delayed him in the open country NW of Canton, I should be able hold him a couple of days until Hong Kong falls. Had 2 deliberat attacks that reduces his FT. level to 2, I hope to take it on the next turns. Troops moving to reinforce Canton. In the middle I'm grathering strength and supplies.
Malaya/Burma
Khota Bharu fell and prep for Aloa Star is almost ready. The 15th Army is moving forward towards Tavoy and the Imperial Guards are at Vitoria point.
SRA/
No major fights there yet(got to move my Jake strike force [:D][:D][:D]) But one major victory. The comander of the I-165 Harada T. will recieve medals from His Majesty after sinking the AP Van Diem who was sneaking troops out of Boreno.
Central pacific
A 2 carrier raiding force attacked the Marshall Is and caused a little damage. There were both buffalos and f4f fighters. 9 A6M2's got threw the cap and downed some of the 60+ SBD's.
Home Is
tweaked production a little more(can't stop doing that[:)])
Supply drops like a rock in some of the cities as it is spread around to get factories up and running.
More later
Some action heating up in PI,Aparri,Vigainfell,Naga and Legaspi invaded and others on the way. Some success with ASW forces. The most potent weopen my arsenal has become the jake floatplan. I've got some other plans for the mini KB and have used the CS and AV ships for naval attacks. 60kg bombs rain from the sky[:D][:D][:D].
China
The shock attack at Yenen on the previous turn by the Chinese left them weak and my counter shock attack drove them out of Yenen just before the reinforcements arrive. I hold Yenen and recovered a large amount of supplies. This has got to hurt Blam0 there. The lack of air support units do cause a problem in China for me to really hold air control. Down south Blam0 sent his 2 large forces toward Canton, but I have delayed him in the open country NW of Canton, I should be able hold him a couple of days until Hong Kong falls. Had 2 deliberat attacks that reduces his FT. level to 2, I hope to take it on the next turns. Troops moving to reinforce Canton. In the middle I'm grathering strength and supplies.
Malaya/Burma
Khota Bharu fell and prep for Aloa Star is almost ready. The 15th Army is moving forward towards Tavoy and the Imperial Guards are at Vitoria point.
SRA/
No major fights there yet(got to move my Jake strike force [:D][:D][:D]) But one major victory. The comander of the I-165 Harada T. will recieve medals from His Majesty after sinking the AP Van Diem who was sneaking troops out of Boreno.
Central pacific
A 2 carrier raiding force attacked the Marshall Is and caused a little damage. There were both buffalos and f4f fighters. 9 A6M2's got threw the cap and downed some of the 60+ SBD's.
Home Is
tweaked production a little more(can't stop doing that[:)])
Supply drops like a rock in some of the cities as it is spread around to get factories up and running.
More later
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: "A Clash of Cultures"Blam0vrs Sadja
Mine warfare is going to play a much larger part in this fight than in our last. I "bumped" into minefields outside of both Manila and Palembang. Fortunately the MSWs found it in Manila. A very "helpful" tanker found the minefield outside of Palembang. [:@]
Canton was the site for a major fight in our last battle. I'm not as convinced as Sadja is that he can hold it until Hong Kong falls.
The first signs of corruption in the Nationalist Chinese Army.[:(] Supplies due the Great Chinese Soldiers were witheld by subversives and hooligans in a war profiteering scheme. An investigation is underway.
Canton was the site for a major fight in our last battle. I'm not as convinced as Sadja is that he can hold it until Hong Kong falls.
The first signs of corruption in the Nationalist Chinese Army.[:(] Supplies due the Great Chinese Soldiers were witheld by subversives and hooligans in a war profiteering scheme. An investigation is underway.
<pow>
Lucky Find!!
Not too many noteworth items to report. Sadja seems to be consolidating his gains in Malasia, and moving up through Burma as expected. The invasion of Borneo has started, and Burnei has fallen. My bombers have been fairly ineffective versus his navy, so I've switched to Ground Attack for a time, to get them some morale, and experience for the long war ahead.
In good news, the 2CV TF raided the Marshalls, and caught a ML TF which was worked over fairly well. Not as many sinkings from the number of 1000lb bombs that hit, but hopefully some more ships will succumb to Japanese damage control techniques.[:)]
12/18-19 was a bad turn for Subs on both sides, each of us losing at least two, with others damaged.
One of the damaged subs was the Tuna, which while on it's way from San Francisco to Pearl took a potshot at the BB Kirishima (!) at 120,59 and paid for it. Kirishima is escorting Hiryu and Soryu headed east, doing "whatever". I've just run the turn, so I have not decided how exactly to meet this challenge.
Sadja and his floatplanes with their 60kg bombs finally sand Trinity in Manila, which was busily pumping the Island's fuel stores into the sea. I'm having difficulty with the idea that EVERY 60kg bomb dropped from a floatplane penetrated the deck, and/or destroyed the various (3") gun mounts. Oh, and the Floatplanes divebomb[8|] Very minor, and fun as hell to watch, but annoying nonetheless.
Now to the destruction of the Hiryu and Soryu....
In good news, the 2CV TF raided the Marshalls, and caught a ML TF which was worked over fairly well. Not as many sinkings from the number of 1000lb bombs that hit, but hopefully some more ships will succumb to Japanese damage control techniques.[:)]
12/18-19 was a bad turn for Subs on both sides, each of us losing at least two, with others damaged.
One of the damaged subs was the Tuna, which while on it's way from San Francisco to Pearl took a potshot at the BB Kirishima (!) at 120,59 and paid for it. Kirishima is escorting Hiryu and Soryu headed east, doing "whatever". I've just run the turn, so I have not decided how exactly to meet this challenge.
Sadja and his floatplanes with their 60kg bombs finally sand Trinity in Manila, which was busily pumping the Island's fuel stores into the sea. I'm having difficulty with the idea that EVERY 60kg bomb dropped from a floatplane penetrated the deck, and/or destroyed the various (3") gun mounts. Oh, and the Floatplanes divebomb[8|] Very minor, and fun as hell to watch, but annoying nonetheless.
Now to the destruction of the Hiryu and Soryu....
<pow>
RE: Lucky Find!!
Blam0 just doesn't understand, 85 exp floatplane knights of the sky can be deadly[:D][:D].
They are something fun to deal with. The American mind just has trouble with metric's. 60kg is 132lbs and if you drop a 132lb chunck of steel at 150mph it is going through 1/2" of steel deck plate. to call that deck armour is being polite. At least 30 60kg bomb hits were scored on the Trinity over 4 days and I'm sure it was the fire damage that sunk it.
The running into the BB north of Pearl will show its ugly head as I'm sure Blam0 is finding out right now as he runs the combat replay. Will share the results as soon as he runs his turn.
I got back to Canton after Hong Kong fell before he could invest the city. He now has brought his 11 Units into the city and they will die there. One of the best things is I can use bombardment TF on his troops. I did do one thing that turned out bad. To do all the things I needed I left Canton below garrison strengh. When Mr Frag says there is a big penalty to pay he sure was right. Lost all the supplies there for a turn, damaged my port and airfield badly and even damaged resources. Everything is back now except some of the resources still need to be repaired. I'm not sure how many supply that cost me but it was a bunch I'm sure. Guessing 10-20 thousand.
Will run results when i get turn back from Blam0. He may beat me to it while I run my side.
Sadja
They are something fun to deal with. The American mind just has trouble with metric's. 60kg is 132lbs and if you drop a 132lb chunck of steel at 150mph it is going through 1/2" of steel deck plate. to call that deck armour is being polite. At least 30 60kg bomb hits were scored on the Trinity over 4 days and I'm sure it was the fire damage that sunk it.
The running into the BB north of Pearl will show its ugly head as I'm sure Blam0 is finding out right now as he runs the combat replay. Will share the results as soon as he runs his turn.
I got back to Canton after Hong Kong fell before he could invest the city. He now has brought his 11 Units into the city and they will die there. One of the best things is I can use bombardment TF on his troops. I did do one thing that turned out bad. To do all the things I needed I left Canton below garrison strengh. When Mr Frag says there is a big penalty to pay he sure was right. Lost all the supplies there for a turn, damaged my port and airfield badly and even damaged resources. Everything is back now except some of the resources still need to be repaired. I'm not sure how many supply that cost me but it was a bunch I'm sure. Guessing 10-20 thousand.
Will run results when i get turn back from Blam0. He may beat me to it while I run my side.
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: Lucky Find!!
12/19-21/41
The KB reared its head NE of Pearl Harbor. I was going to cruise East around the H.Is. hopeing to catch some damaged ships trying for the west coast. I had been sitting North out of detection range(I thought) refueling the KB. On my move SE I not only found a small Surface TF with the Arizona and Pennsylvania, which I promply sunk. But the biggest prize was 3 transport TFs headed for Pearl. I sunk over 100,000 cap of AKs and 70,000 cap Tks and AO's all so damaged another 50,000 AK and TKs. I will find all the subs I can to try and pick up stragglers. The KB after 2 days of flying 2/day attacks has left for friendly bases. If I had AE's maybe I would have stayed around.I know this sounds a little gamey but it was a risk and it will slow down expansion in other areas. But Blam0 agrees the AK and TK loss is much more damaging than the 2 BB's. Don't get me wrong the BB's are important for points and I will not have to face those ships with updated AA platforms. It will affect his bombardment in later war .The total so far is 13 lg AKs 2 small, 3Tks and an AO. The combat ships were the 2 BBs and an AVD.
China Blam0 is trying to surround Canton and I will have to divert forces to protect the flanks. The AVG has reared its head and the B group was hurt bad but his A group did a job on some Nate escorted DBs. I'm still moving troops around and going to threaten some areas to loosen pressure on Canton and move foward in the North.
Burma/Malaya
I've caputred Tavoy and Victoria Point, but my Imperial Guards Div decided to take a scenic route in the jungle and took me two days just to get them going in the right direction.
SRA/PI
Consolidating gains in PI didn't bring enough troops to Naga so I have a siege which will destroy the resources.[:@][:@]
north coast of Boreno is coming under control, and Davo is mine.
In the PI his P-40's in manila are giving me a hard time by attacking my transports. I've got a plan to deal with this up coming.[:@][:@][8D]
One thing that has been talked about in the forum treads is sub spotting. I haven't had that more success spotting(In our first game I spent a bunch of resouces on ASW to include betty's,vals,kates, and nell's) but I have had a lot more hits on subs in the base hex and 1 hex out. If I spot them in the mid ocean no hits but if left 1 hex away the Vals and kates hit the buggers. Sunk 1 on the 21st with a destroyers after being hit 3 times from the air.[:)]
Read up on the forum and will tell you if my Nell and H6ks up grade to betty's and Emilys. They both should change on or about the 2nd of Jan. Will make sure there is supply in those bases.[&:]
I feel like I'm doing better in this game but Blam0 is husbanding his warships, haven't seen a single ship larger than a destroyer except for his Air group planes in the marshalls.[&:][&:]
I know he is planning a big surprise for me. We had lots of fights around Rabaul in our last game. He is concerend about my trop slingers in Indo China, R class BBs really atract those things[:D][:D]
My daughter still hasn't showed me how to transfer the combat pics to the forum maybe soon I will add a little color to these updates.[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Thanks for viewing
sadja
The KB reared its head NE of Pearl Harbor. I was going to cruise East around the H.Is. hopeing to catch some damaged ships trying for the west coast. I had been sitting North out of detection range(I thought) refueling the KB. On my move SE I not only found a small Surface TF with the Arizona and Pennsylvania, which I promply sunk. But the biggest prize was 3 transport TFs headed for Pearl. I sunk over 100,000 cap of AKs and 70,000 cap Tks and AO's all so damaged another 50,000 AK and TKs. I will find all the subs I can to try and pick up stragglers. The KB after 2 days of flying 2/day attacks has left for friendly bases. If I had AE's maybe I would have stayed around.I know this sounds a little gamey but it was a risk and it will slow down expansion in other areas. But Blam0 agrees the AK and TK loss is much more damaging than the 2 BB's. Don't get me wrong the BB's are important for points and I will not have to face those ships with updated AA platforms. It will affect his bombardment in later war .The total so far is 13 lg AKs 2 small, 3Tks and an AO. The combat ships were the 2 BBs and an AVD.
China Blam0 is trying to surround Canton and I will have to divert forces to protect the flanks. The AVG has reared its head and the B group was hurt bad but his A group did a job on some Nate escorted DBs. I'm still moving troops around and going to threaten some areas to loosen pressure on Canton and move foward in the North.
Burma/Malaya
I've caputred Tavoy and Victoria Point, but my Imperial Guards Div decided to take a scenic route in the jungle and took me two days just to get them going in the right direction.
SRA/PI
Consolidating gains in PI didn't bring enough troops to Naga so I have a siege which will destroy the resources.[:@][:@]
north coast of Boreno is coming under control, and Davo is mine.
In the PI his P-40's in manila are giving me a hard time by attacking my transports. I've got a plan to deal with this up coming.[:@][:@][8D]
One thing that has been talked about in the forum treads is sub spotting. I haven't had that more success spotting(In our first game I spent a bunch of resouces on ASW to include betty's,vals,kates, and nell's) but I have had a lot more hits on subs in the base hex and 1 hex out. If I spot them in the mid ocean no hits but if left 1 hex away the Vals and kates hit the buggers. Sunk 1 on the 21st with a destroyers after being hit 3 times from the air.[:)]
Read up on the forum and will tell you if my Nell and H6ks up grade to betty's and Emilys. They both should change on or about the 2nd of Jan. Will make sure there is supply in those bases.[&:]
I feel like I'm doing better in this game but Blam0 is husbanding his warships, haven't seen a single ship larger than a destroyer except for his Air group planes in the marshalls.[&:][&:]
I know he is planning a big surprise for me. We had lots of fights around Rabaul in our last game. He is concerend about my trop slingers in Indo China, R class BBs really atract those things[:D][:D]
My daughter still hasn't showed me how to transfer the combat pics to the forum maybe soon I will add a little color to these updates.[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Thanks for viewing
sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: Lucky Find!!
12/21-24/41
PH/Central Pac
The convoys of previously damaged suppy ships lost another 60,000 cap of suppy and fuel from subs picking off cripples. I also got an the AS Fulton. Still looking for more,but Blam0 is sending out ASW forces to deal with my subs. The KB is headed West to friendly bases but, found another supply transport TF. Sunk another 5 AKs and an AO. Blam0 finially used some of his SWPAC forces and tried to bombard Truk. I guess he didn't know there were 8"costal guns there. He did shoot up some training forces there and sunk some PGs and damaged my training Cl.
Found some DMS ships maybe they are running some fast transports to take some of the marshalls. Sunk 1 DMS and damaged another.
Maylaya/Burma
Air attacks and bombardment the main things going on as well as moving ships and troops around. Keeping SC TFs covering my transports. he is attacking them by air and doing little damage. The mini KB covering them with some air.
SRA:
Took Miri but ended up with some damage. I messed up and didn't invade it right off. Moving TF around getting ready to advance the airfleets to close off the java sea.
PI:
Building up air forces in Loang and Aparrai to shorten range and reduce fatigue. Meanwhile using some air assets to pound chineese troops in and around Canton.
China:
Ah yes the great quagmire. This whole area can consume you and if you allow it will comsume to many supplies and troops.
Have been replaceing nates with oscarsI and hope they will help in the air war. Will have to keep some A6M2's to keep the AVG in line. Moving troops around and advancing in the north. Will see if 2 ID and 1 tk reg can beat up 10 chineese formations that have been previously retreated. The IDs are some what fresh with good exp,supply and support.
Burned some PP's to move home defense air units to china.
Production:
Once supplies are used it up and are expanding the supplies take a long time to build back up. Had to turn off some of my expansion for about a week except the air craft factories. For what ever reason the supplies run out of Saebo and Nagasaki. I'm moving HQ units ther to draw them back. I have sent supply TFs from one city in the east home islans to the west. the are factories that I want to expand is Saebo. Trying to figure out what to do with the AG's in the home islands. Moving supply that would use the rail.
thanks
Sadja
PH/Central Pac
The convoys of previously damaged suppy ships lost another 60,000 cap of suppy and fuel from subs picking off cripples. I also got an the AS Fulton. Still looking for more,but Blam0 is sending out ASW forces to deal with my subs. The KB is headed West to friendly bases but, found another supply transport TF. Sunk another 5 AKs and an AO. Blam0 finially used some of his SWPAC forces and tried to bombard Truk. I guess he didn't know there were 8"costal guns there. He did shoot up some training forces there and sunk some PGs and damaged my training Cl.
Found some DMS ships maybe they are running some fast transports to take some of the marshalls. Sunk 1 DMS and damaged another.
Maylaya/Burma
Air attacks and bombardment the main things going on as well as moving ships and troops around. Keeping SC TFs covering my transports. he is attacking them by air and doing little damage. The mini KB covering them with some air.
SRA:
Took Miri but ended up with some damage. I messed up and didn't invade it right off. Moving TF around getting ready to advance the airfleets to close off the java sea.
PI:
Building up air forces in Loang and Aparrai to shorten range and reduce fatigue. Meanwhile using some air assets to pound chineese troops in and around Canton.
China:
Ah yes the great quagmire. This whole area can consume you and if you allow it will comsume to many supplies and troops.
Have been replaceing nates with oscarsI and hope they will help in the air war. Will have to keep some A6M2's to keep the AVG in line. Moving troops around and advancing in the north. Will see if 2 ID and 1 tk reg can beat up 10 chineese formations that have been previously retreated. The IDs are some what fresh with good exp,supply and support.
Burned some PP's to move home defense air units to china.
Production:
Once supplies are used it up and are expanding the supplies take a long time to build back up. Had to turn off some of my expansion for about a week except the air craft factories. For what ever reason the supplies run out of Saebo and Nagasaki. I'm moving HQ units ther to draw them back. I have sent supply TFs from one city in the east home islans to the west. the are factories that I want to expand is Saebo. Trying to figure out what to do with the AG's in the home islands. Moving supply that would use the rail.
thanks
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: Lucky Find!!
Sadja is so good at this, I feel pretty much useless...the AAR that is... [:'(]
Sadja is much more agressive (he's all over the place) in this game than he was in the last, and I'm starting to come to grips with it. I was lazy and in cautious and paid for it with 2 full resupply TFs. And IMO, this will set me back about three weeks, while the loss of the BBs headed to SF for repairs would have had no effect on my timetables for...whatever.
Sadja is quite correct in that I am not exposing my surface fleets at the moment. In our last game I was very agressive with them early on, and paid quite dearly for it. So, I'm a bit more circumspect this time.
I've commenced a strategic bombing campaign in China, using a B-17 group from PI, and the IL-4s. It's not much, but it's a start. Canton will be interesting, as we are both rushing reinforcements there, as well as the north. Changsha proper is quiet, though there is some action on the outskirts. Sadja is not the only one having issues with pathing. An HQ of mine wandered off, deciding that a hike through the mountains was faster than rail. Sadja concientiously redirected them for me. AVG is taking a beating, spread out like it was, so I'm rethinking my deployments.
British and Dutch air forces have been singularly miserable attempting naval attacks. My fighters have had much more success against his ships, which is why they are detailed to that. I'm glad to hear that my P-40s are causing grief. I've set at least three tankers on fire with strafing runs. I'm sure that Sadja will be bombing Manila soon to deal with this issue.
I'm not about to tip my hand here about what suprises may be in store.
I'll try and post a map next turn.
Sadja is much more agressive (he's all over the place) in this game than he was in the last, and I'm starting to come to grips with it. I was lazy and in cautious and paid for it with 2 full resupply TFs. And IMO, this will set me back about three weeks, while the loss of the BBs headed to SF for repairs would have had no effect on my timetables for...whatever.
Sadja is quite correct in that I am not exposing my surface fleets at the moment. In our last game I was very agressive with them early on, and paid quite dearly for it. So, I'm a bit more circumspect this time.
I've commenced a strategic bombing campaign in China, using a B-17 group from PI, and the IL-4s. It's not much, but it's a start. Canton will be interesting, as we are both rushing reinforcements there, as well as the north. Changsha proper is quiet, though there is some action on the outskirts. Sadja is not the only one having issues with pathing. An HQ of mine wandered off, deciding that a hike through the mountains was faster than rail. Sadja concientiously redirected them for me. AVG is taking a beating, spread out like it was, so I'm rethinking my deployments.
British and Dutch air forces have been singularly miserable attempting naval attacks. My fighters have had much more success against his ships, which is why they are detailed to that. I'm glad to hear that my P-40s are causing grief. I've set at least three tankers on fire with strafing runs. I'm sure that Sadja will be bombing Manila soon to deal with this issue.
I'm not about to tip my hand here about what suprises may be in store.
I'll try and post a map next turn.
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New years up date1/2/42
New Years update.
ScoreJapan:4028
Allies:7504
Air craft lossJapan/232 Allies/510Lgjapan 32zero's19ops and 30kates 10 ops. The allies 136P-40bs 68 a2a
Ship losses: Japan 11: 1dd,4ss 1AP,5patrol craft. Allies 66:3Bb's,1dd,20lg,9smAKs,4AO's 8LgTKs,5 ss plus 12 patrol craft,AVDs. Most of the AKs were suuply TFs from west coast caught in mid dec.
Army points,Japan 57 Allies 942
Bases: japan 167 allies 281
Key loctions taken for Japan: Yehen,Miri,Brunei,Davo,Hong Kong and North coast of PI.
Allies have invested Canton and right now I'm not strong enough to blow him out yet.P40's have shot up a lot of ships,and it is slow progress in Malaya.
The nell factory did convert to betty's but the h6ks have not yet through 1/4/42. Will wait another week to check.
Many next phase plans are in the works for Japan, and I have no idea where his carriers are, or POW and Repulse.[&:][&:]
I'm sure Blam0 has a surprise for me soon.[:D] Still get that great sig int.[:)][:)]
Thanks for now.
Sadja
ScoreJapan:4028
Allies:7504
Air craft lossJapan/232 Allies/510Lgjapan 32zero's19ops and 30kates 10 ops. The allies 136P-40bs 68 a2a
Ship losses: Japan 11: 1dd,4ss 1AP,5patrol craft. Allies 66:3Bb's,1dd,20lg,9smAKs,4AO's 8LgTKs,5 ss plus 12 patrol craft,AVDs. Most of the AKs were suuply TFs from west coast caught in mid dec.
Army points,Japan 57 Allies 942
Bases: japan 167 allies 281
Key loctions taken for Japan: Yehen,Miri,Brunei,Davo,Hong Kong and North coast of PI.
Allies have invested Canton and right now I'm not strong enough to blow him out yet.P40's have shot up a lot of ships,and it is slow progress in Malaya.
The nell factory did convert to betty's but the h6ks have not yet through 1/4/42. Will wait another week to check.
Many next phase plans are in the works for Japan, and I have no idea where his carriers are, or POW and Repulse.[&:][&:]
I'm sure Blam0 has a surprise for me soon.[:D] Still get that great sig int.[:)][:)]
Thanks for now.
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: New years up date1/2/42
1/12/42
Almost half way thru jan. The AC factories converted as expected, both nells and mavis.
War goes steady but slow for japan. Have allies backed up to thier defensive positions in Clarke,Manila,and Battan. fighting in san Berdenio sp.China: There is a manuver battle around Changsha, I haven't entered the hex itself, working on isolatingit. After the initial success at Yehen Blam0 brought just about everything but the kitchen sink and has halted me for a little while. I've invested Inchang and thought I could take it, but the Chineese showed good fight thier and am brining up reinforcements and more engineers Canton Blam0 has put a couple of corps on the Easr side, but I have enough to stop him and then push him back. the western rail line is starting to heat up with Japanese trops coming fro Hanoi and Nanning.
Malaya/Burma: Cut off troops at Tavoy and got a couple of base forces there. moving towards Rangoon. Had Nells and Bettys on Naval attack but get few missions. Have sunk or hammered a couple of TKs at Rangoon. captured Aloa Star finally after getting the Imperial guards there. He retreated to Georgetown but is now trying to fight his way back out. Working on the east side down the coast.
SRA: Consolidating north Borneo just some air attacks going on.
Central pacific: Quiet.
SWPAC: Quiet.
KB: Who knows.
Have been working on useing leaders more often, found one of my KB CV commanders with an 18 in air says he would be a great surface ship commader. Does use up PPs though.
The bigest difference this time than last game is there have been little if any surface attacks. Blam0 has been keeping his SC TF away, he has a lot of respect for my torp slingers early in the war, but he has been using his B-17's again. Brought them back to PI and made a port attack at Takko and busted up a bunch of my support ships, nothing sunk but that may change.
Thanks
Sadja
Almost half way thru jan. The AC factories converted as expected, both nells and mavis.
War goes steady but slow for japan. Have allies backed up to thier defensive positions in Clarke,Manila,and Battan. fighting in san Berdenio sp.China: There is a manuver battle around Changsha, I haven't entered the hex itself, working on isolatingit. After the initial success at Yehen Blam0 brought just about everything but the kitchen sink and has halted me for a little while. I've invested Inchang and thought I could take it, but the Chineese showed good fight thier and am brining up reinforcements and more engineers Canton Blam0 has put a couple of corps on the Easr side, but I have enough to stop him and then push him back. the western rail line is starting to heat up with Japanese trops coming fro Hanoi and Nanning.
Malaya/Burma: Cut off troops at Tavoy and got a couple of base forces there. moving towards Rangoon. Had Nells and Bettys on Naval attack but get few missions. Have sunk or hammered a couple of TKs at Rangoon. captured Aloa Star finally after getting the Imperial guards there. He retreated to Georgetown but is now trying to fight his way back out. Working on the east side down the coast.
SRA: Consolidating north Borneo just some air attacks going on.
Central pacific: Quiet.
SWPAC: Quiet.
KB: Who knows.
Have been working on useing leaders more often, found one of my KB CV commanders with an 18 in air says he would be a great surface ship commader. Does use up PPs though.
The bigest difference this time than last game is there have been little if any surface attacks. Blam0 has been keeping his SC TF away, he has a lot of respect for my torp slingers early in the war, but he has been using his B-17's again. Brought them back to PI and made a port attack at Takko and busted up a bunch of my support ships, nothing sunk but that may change.
Thanks
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: 1/31/42 update
Its the begining of Feb, and things are starting to heat up.
Game totals so far:
Base/jap195-allies253
air points lost Jap549-Allies 806
Army points lost Jap141(mostly in China) Allies1803 (cut off troops in Malaya and Borne)
Ships sunk Jap21 Allies100
Total score Allies7167 Jap 6004
The Main ship losses were for the Allies 66AK/TK/AP/AO only24 combat ships and 10PTs and 9SS are the most of these losses. Jap has lost 1 DD but 10 subs 6 aux ships and 2 cargo.
Blam0 has been keeping his combat ships out of sight until recently.
AC losses Jap 187 fighters 259 bombers Allies 380 fighters and 198 bombers to include 146 P40bs and 48 SBDs The dreaded 4eng bombers have taken some losses but not in the air. 18 B-17e were lost by ops. They are very tough in A2A the nates, oscars have weak firepower and the zeros are somewhat fragile when flying against them. Good thing they are not so good at hitting things yet.
Combat going on:
China: Japan has been unable to knock the chinese out of Ichang and are being held up outside of Yehen by a massive chineese army of 18units. He still invests Canton and has 3 units east of Canton. I have not attacked Changsha yet due to the slow down at Ichang. I am clearing the railway from Hanoi, Ive beaten up 6 or 7 chineese Corps but it is taking a long time.
PI, Allies hold Manila,Bataan,and Clark, gathering troops together so I do not attack Clark piecemeal. Bombing the crap out of him though. Central Islands still in allied hands but all but Cotabato in Japanese hand in Mindano.
Maylay and Burma:
Allies hold Singapore,Mersing, and JB in Malaya, and Pagan,Mandalay,Lashio,and Akyab in Burma.
SWPAC: Things are heating up here and Central Pacfic, The KB is supporting ops around New Britian and New Guniae, Rabaul is being surounded with invasion immenent.
Central Pacific, the Allied Carriers have struck Kwajalein with mix results so far. but I'm sure more is comming.
SRA: Japan has captured North and East Boreno to include Tarkan sp. More troops are comming but I have to reduce his air assets a little more. The mini KB is helping there.
Japan Industry: I have quit messing with it right now and supply is starting to increase in th eHI and being distibuted to the front.
This has been a much different game than our last Blam0 and I both have been less agressive, resulting in fewer losses but some parts will suck you in if you are not careful and you will be fighting somewhere that you don't want to.
I'm sure there will be more to report soon due to the fact that the American carriers have come out to play.
Sadja
Game totals so far:
Base/jap195-allies253
air points lost Jap549-Allies 806
Army points lost Jap141(mostly in China) Allies1803 (cut off troops in Malaya and Borne)
Ships sunk Jap21 Allies100
Total score Allies7167 Jap 6004
The Main ship losses were for the Allies 66AK/TK/AP/AO only24 combat ships and 10PTs and 9SS are the most of these losses. Jap has lost 1 DD but 10 subs 6 aux ships and 2 cargo.
Blam0 has been keeping his combat ships out of sight until recently.
AC losses Jap 187 fighters 259 bombers Allies 380 fighters and 198 bombers to include 146 P40bs and 48 SBDs The dreaded 4eng bombers have taken some losses but not in the air. 18 B-17e were lost by ops. They are very tough in A2A the nates, oscars have weak firepower and the zeros are somewhat fragile when flying against them. Good thing they are not so good at hitting things yet.
Combat going on:
China: Japan has been unable to knock the chinese out of Ichang and are being held up outside of Yehen by a massive chineese army of 18units. He still invests Canton and has 3 units east of Canton. I have not attacked Changsha yet due to the slow down at Ichang. I am clearing the railway from Hanoi, Ive beaten up 6 or 7 chineese Corps but it is taking a long time.
PI, Allies hold Manila,Bataan,and Clark, gathering troops together so I do not attack Clark piecemeal. Bombing the crap out of him though. Central Islands still in allied hands but all but Cotabato in Japanese hand in Mindano.
Maylay and Burma:
Allies hold Singapore,Mersing, and JB in Malaya, and Pagan,Mandalay,Lashio,and Akyab in Burma.
SWPAC: Things are heating up here and Central Pacfic, The KB is supporting ops around New Britian and New Guniae, Rabaul is being surounded with invasion immenent.
Central Pacific, the Allied Carriers have struck Kwajalein with mix results so far. but I'm sure more is comming.
SRA: Japan has captured North and East Boreno to include Tarkan sp. More troops are comming but I have to reduce his air assets a little more. The mini KB is helping there.
Japan Industry: I have quit messing with it right now and supply is starting to increase in th eHI and being distibuted to the front.
This has been a much different game than our last Blam0 and I both have been less agressive, resulting in fewer losses but some parts will suck you in if you are not careful and you will be fighting somewhere that you don't want to.
I'm sure there will be more to report soon due to the fact that the American carriers have come out to play.
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: 1/31/42 update
Sadja has been making good progress, particilarly with a very pretty operation in the Solomons/New Guinea Area which saw him conduct 4 strategically significant landings in the space of four days (two turns) under cover of a CV TF. I had a few days lead on a piece of this op through Intel, and put together a Surface TF to deal with the effort, but his CVs got into position probably two day too early to gather up that fleet.[8D] Kudos to Sadja for this op. He will likely be brining in Zeros and Betties to make my life difficult quite soon. I would not be suprised to see him go after PM and Gili Gili after he reduces Rabaul. My biggest issue right now is a shortage of trained pilots/crews and aviation support units. I'll have to start min/maxing things to sort this out.
China is trench warfare again, except near Hanoi, where my troops just did not have the supplies to hold on. The going will definatley get tougher as he moves inland.
The lack of significant casualties signifies my decision to focus my defenses on what to me are more defensible areas early on. Accordingly, Mersing, Singapore, Clark Field, and Manila are all heavily garrisoned, and Sadja knows this. Taking these cities is going to cost, either through supplies during a prolonged bombardment, a la Manila and Clark Field, or through casualties during assaults, either way, I'm looking to string things along as far as possible, and make things as expensive as possible.
The air war has been going well for Sadja thus far, as he has been covering his TFs well, and has been able to inflict significant losses on inexperienced bomber units. I've been using LB-30s in China to go after HI sites. I've also been attacking Resources and Oil with B-17s and LB-30s in other places. He can't be everywhere.
The Allied CV effort in the central pacific was not as successful as I had hoped, due partially to human error. I'm still having some difficulties understanding naval movement. Maybe I need to go and re-read the manual. Hornet will be showing up "soon", and I'll have 5 CVs in the pacific. That should constitute enough of a threat to induce Sadja to re-constitute KB, and simplify my life tracking it.
Ahh...another turn has arrived.... [:)]
China is trench warfare again, except near Hanoi, where my troops just did not have the supplies to hold on. The going will definatley get tougher as he moves inland.
The lack of significant casualties signifies my decision to focus my defenses on what to me are more defensible areas early on. Accordingly, Mersing, Singapore, Clark Field, and Manila are all heavily garrisoned, and Sadja knows this. Taking these cities is going to cost, either through supplies during a prolonged bombardment, a la Manila and Clark Field, or through casualties during assaults, either way, I'm looking to string things along as far as possible, and make things as expensive as possible.
The air war has been going well for Sadja thus far, as he has been covering his TFs well, and has been able to inflict significant losses on inexperienced bomber units. I've been using LB-30s in China to go after HI sites. I've also been attacking Resources and Oil with B-17s and LB-30s in other places. He can't be everywhere.
The Allied CV effort in the central pacific was not as successful as I had hoped, due partially to human error. I'm still having some difficulties understanding naval movement. Maybe I need to go and re-read the manual. Hornet will be showing up "soon", and I'll have 5 CVs in the pacific. That should constitute enough of a threat to induce Sadja to re-constitute KB, and simplify my life tracking it.
Ahh...another turn has arrived.... [:)]
<pow>
RE: 1/31/42 update
Begining of march 42 update,
ScoreJap7978
Allies 7721
Just took lead and haven't caputred any of the big bases yet.
Air losses still running 1.5/1 A/J
Ground losses A 2693 J 207 Most of my losses have been to failed attacks at Ichang
Ship LossesA 164/1891 J 39/240
Very few combat ship losses on both sides J has lost 12 SS and 2 DD, A 4BB,3DD,gobs of Aux but over 100 AK<AP<TK and AOs.
This next month should show a sudden big change for Japan. Singapore and the defensive triange in luzon should be in my hands.
Big picture.
China: Still lots of ground combat going on. Blam0 clings to Ichang after several failed assults. Blam0 claimes he iskeeping the moral up there with dancing girls. There has been some strategic bombing going on in China. I'm using 2eg bombers only, and he is attacking with those dmn 4eng bastads, nates really suck against them.(I want my Tony's).
M/B
I'm stalled a little bit at Mandalay, he has decided to defend it. He is using his air to pound my advance. He also slipped a BB force in Rangoon and obliterated a oscare Daitai. I'm getting ready to move into Singapore.
PI. Blam0 still holds the triangle(Clarke,Manila,Battan) but I'm besieging Clarke. Hold most of the southern islands.
SRA; Only the east side of Borneo is his Balikapan is ready to fall. Had a bunc of battles around there and the KB has finally decided to fly attack missions, for some reason they didn't want to fly much.
SWPAC: I have spent to many resources here but the results do show some big gains. I destroyed an ASW and several Transport TF around Port Moresby. I had taken Lae and he moved some Hvy Bombers to supress Lae and rabaul. I hit him with the KB hard blew up a bunch of those B-17s and LB-30s on the ground. Lae is now a level 4 AF and I hold Lunga and has a level 1 AF now. He sent a small BB tf to Lunga and my cover force was a couple of CLs and DDs. It broke about even accept he got a wack at some transports and even bombarded the AF. The KB was refueling to far away to catch it before it left. I believe he thought I would pursue him and tried to slip those Transport TFs into P.M. Thats when I caught him.
We have had some strange Naval battles one which had 5 dutch PTs against 3Jap PTs and 2 DDs. 303 vikers shell hits really aren't that impressive[:)].
I have been learning new ways to work this game. I have had some strange stuff happen and like most people said the ground combat does not make sense at times. I have a unit in china with 40s fatigue and good moral will not move 1 more mile. has sat at 59/60 for almost 2wks.
Industry/ I just can't keep my hands off tweaking it. Have written a note and put it on my monitor stating no industry moves till April[:D][:D]
Love this game
Sadja
ScoreJap7978
Allies 7721
Just took lead and haven't caputred any of the big bases yet.
Air losses still running 1.5/1 A/J
Ground losses A 2693 J 207 Most of my losses have been to failed attacks at Ichang
Ship LossesA 164/1891 J 39/240
Very few combat ship losses on both sides J has lost 12 SS and 2 DD, A 4BB,3DD,gobs of Aux but over 100 AK<AP<TK and AOs.
This next month should show a sudden big change for Japan. Singapore and the defensive triange in luzon should be in my hands.
Big picture.
China: Still lots of ground combat going on. Blam0 clings to Ichang after several failed assults. Blam0 claimes he iskeeping the moral up there with dancing girls. There has been some strategic bombing going on in China. I'm using 2eg bombers only, and he is attacking with those dmn 4eng bastads, nates really suck against them.(I want my Tony's).
M/B
I'm stalled a little bit at Mandalay, he has decided to defend it. He is using his air to pound my advance. He also slipped a BB force in Rangoon and obliterated a oscare Daitai. I'm getting ready to move into Singapore.
PI. Blam0 still holds the triangle(Clarke,Manila,Battan) but I'm besieging Clarke. Hold most of the southern islands.
SRA; Only the east side of Borneo is his Balikapan is ready to fall. Had a bunc of battles around there and the KB has finally decided to fly attack missions, for some reason they didn't want to fly much.
SWPAC: I have spent to many resources here but the results do show some big gains. I destroyed an ASW and several Transport TF around Port Moresby. I had taken Lae and he moved some Hvy Bombers to supress Lae and rabaul. I hit him with the KB hard blew up a bunch of those B-17s and LB-30s on the ground. Lae is now a level 4 AF and I hold Lunga and has a level 1 AF now. He sent a small BB tf to Lunga and my cover force was a couple of CLs and DDs. It broke about even accept he got a wack at some transports and even bombarded the AF. The KB was refueling to far away to catch it before it left. I believe he thought I would pursue him and tried to slip those Transport TFs into P.M. Thats when I caught him.
We have had some strange Naval battles one which had 5 dutch PTs against 3Jap PTs and 2 DDs. 303 vikers shell hits really aren't that impressive[:)].
I have been learning new ways to work this game. I have had some strange stuff happen and like most people said the ground combat does not make sense at times. I have a unit in china with 40s fatigue and good moral will not move 1 more mile. has sat at 59/60 for almost 2wks.
Industry/ I just can't keep my hands off tweaking it. Have written a note and put it on my monitor stating no industry moves till April[:D][:D]
Love this game
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: 1/31/42 update
Sadja's efforts in China are starting to pay off for him. He's just taken Ichang. I noticed the buildup of troops too late, and was unable to reinforce in a timely manner. OH well. I don't see the value of it, and he paid dearly. The Chinese AF is quite a mess however, and it will be some time before they will be doing much besides the occastional Strat bombing raid.
Indochina is proving to be a sticking point, as 3 light brigades are holding up a division and a mixed regiment at Mandalay. In a notable Allied success, Rangoon was shelled back into the Late Bronze Age by a British Surface TF out of [edited]. Four "R" Class BB's and a Cruiser Squadron made the effort entirely unscathed and scarcely detected. The Fighter group of Oscars that was on the ground at the time has remained there, though in a higher state of disrepair. This group had been causing problems for the LBA attacking that base, but has been silenced. The Air Base itself is at about 80% damage, so I can consider Rangoon to be Neutralized for the time being. Between this and the stall at Mandalay (for which I have a ready answer when it falls), I'd say the Indochina campaign is in jeopardy as a resource garnering effort.
Singapore is now under siege and lower on supply than I would like. I'm getting some supply in there, but of course it's not enough. I don't care to speculate on how long it will hold. Clark Field is in a similar situation, but he is already assaulting. It won't hold long. I don't have high hopes for Manila.
Borneo is almost all Sadja's though the Dutch AF was able to make a bit of a riposte from Benjamarinsan (sp?) against Transport TFs heading to/from Takaran for several days before Jap fighter cover ended the party. They were supported by LB-30s from [edited] which added to the mayhem once the wounded TFs were ported.
The Solomons and New Guinea have been extremely problematic for me. Sadja launched a very well coordinated assault on the area, and continues it. Port Morseby is now recovering from the repeated bombardments of KB, and is launching strikes against the TF landing troops on Buna as well as the AF at Lae. PM will recover completely within [edited] and once again neutralize any Jap base within 10 hexes.
KB is currently paying a visit to the Luganville/Noumea area. I can't say much about this now.
Given that I konw the location of KB, I can't say much about the American CVs either. Let's hope the two don't meet quite yet. I can say that I have five operational carriers still, and that an OP is in the excution stages.
The biggest problem that I'm facing at this moment (which should not be a suprise to Sadja) is a shortage of current fighter AC in frontline squadrons, and those sqadrons where I need them. I'm trying hard to rectify this issue, but everything takes time. In the meantime, Sadja is pretty much having his way.
Indochina is proving to be a sticking point, as 3 light brigades are holding up a division and a mixed regiment at Mandalay. In a notable Allied success, Rangoon was shelled back into the Late Bronze Age by a British Surface TF out of [edited]. Four "R" Class BB's and a Cruiser Squadron made the effort entirely unscathed and scarcely detected. The Fighter group of Oscars that was on the ground at the time has remained there, though in a higher state of disrepair. This group had been causing problems for the LBA attacking that base, but has been silenced. The Air Base itself is at about 80% damage, so I can consider Rangoon to be Neutralized for the time being. Between this and the stall at Mandalay (for which I have a ready answer when it falls), I'd say the Indochina campaign is in jeopardy as a resource garnering effort.
Singapore is now under siege and lower on supply than I would like. I'm getting some supply in there, but of course it's not enough. I don't care to speculate on how long it will hold. Clark Field is in a similar situation, but he is already assaulting. It won't hold long. I don't have high hopes for Manila.
Borneo is almost all Sadja's though the Dutch AF was able to make a bit of a riposte from Benjamarinsan (sp?) against Transport TFs heading to/from Takaran for several days before Jap fighter cover ended the party. They were supported by LB-30s from [edited] which added to the mayhem once the wounded TFs were ported.
The Solomons and New Guinea have been extremely problematic for me. Sadja launched a very well coordinated assault on the area, and continues it. Port Morseby is now recovering from the repeated bombardments of KB, and is launching strikes against the TF landing troops on Buna as well as the AF at Lae. PM will recover completely within [edited] and once again neutralize any Jap base within 10 hexes.
KB is currently paying a visit to the Luganville/Noumea area. I can't say much about this now.
Given that I konw the location of KB, I can't say much about the American CVs either. Let's hope the two don't meet quite yet. I can say that I have five operational carriers still, and that an OP is in the excution stages.
The biggest problem that I'm facing at this moment (which should not be a suprise to Sadja) is a shortage of current fighter AC in frontline squadrons, and those sqadrons where I need them. I'm trying hard to rectify this issue, but everything takes time. In the meantime, Sadja is pretty much having his way.
<pow>
RE: Lucky Find!!
ORIGINAL: blam0
Sadja and his floatplanes with their 60kg bombs finally sand Trinity in Manila, which was busily pumping the Island's fuel stores into the sea. I'm having difficulty with the idea that EVERY 60kg bomb dropped from a floatplane penetrated the deck, and/or destroyed the various (3") gun mounts. Oh, and the Floatplanes divebomb[8|] Very minor, and fun as hell to watch, but annoying nonetheless.
I have to agree In my game Vs. Artic fire he is kicking me around with his float planes, I agree good pilots vs Merchants should score soem hits but he guys are droping laser guided bombs, he once got 7 hits from 7 jakes! [X(]
F4U Corsair; When you Absolutely, Positively need to kill every freaking Zero in a 40 mile hex....
march 42
First happy 4th of July (IRL)
This is an update for goinings on in our AAR for march and 1st few days of april. Main conquests are Japan conquers Balikapan on 3/3, Ichang in China finnaly falls on the 5th after 2 mo of battle. Singapore and Battan fall 4/2 and 4/3 respectedly. This leaves him manila and He has only 2 forts left. I saw a lot of subs at manila, I don't know if he was bringing in supplies, removing troops, or both. How do you attack subs? [&:]I did a port attack with no result, I finaly tried ASW patrols and tried to get ASW TF around there, but to late.[:(]
The biggest fight took place around Balikapan. Blam0 got his allied CV force of at least 4 CV's attacked my Mini KB, costing me the Ry and Zu and the Shoho badly damaged. It cost him a bunch of his escorts but I didn't get to many of his bombers. My carriers never launched either do to surprise or might have had my cap % to high. Wasn't worried about his CV's more worried about LB planes. My LB never launched even though they were only 5 hexs away. I did launch against some DD's doing something and hurt a couple of them. This has disrupted my attack against the SRA and delayed it by ?. I have quite a few LB fighters and bombers coming on line and expect them to support the attacks. Manila should fall within a couple of weeks max and ac being used there will also be moved foward.
The other main combat ops are around PM. We have been fighting over this for 6wks and he is back in charge. I used the KB to supress and had inial good results. The pile of destrayed AC there is huge and he has a bunch of dead pilots. But as soon as the KB withdrew to refuel and resupply he reinfored it and the air units at Lae could not keep it supressed. The KB made a raid on Aus between Carins and Townsville. And of course they attacked a TF of destroyers 5 hexs and ignored a bigger TF just 60miles. After 4 days I have showed minimal results except when he attacked and I slaughtered his attack force. A few AKs and some 4 stack DD's.
Blam0 has the Hornet operating in the South Pacific, he raided Tarawa with little result except may be his EX went up. I can't chase 1 carrier around with out using up a lot of fuel and suffering sys damage. I will use the KB to support my objectives(what ever they may be) not sure myself sometimes I'm ADD after all.[:D][:D][:D].
Theaters
China/
Continue fighting around Canton, Changsha, NW of Ichang, E of Yemen. I have done something in last turn that Blam0 hasn't seen yet that may unhing an area. I haven't done what I would consider gamey building a huge 250,000 stack of troops and going from one place to the next. I have divided China and allocated resources and supplies and tried to make the best. That is why I attacked Ichang early, although it doesn't have a resource value it is within range of Chungking and I thought if i defeated that small army early it would free up tropps for Changsha. This happened but just 2 moths later than I expected.
Burma/Malaya
As mentioned Sinapore has fallen and troops are being given brief rest. Rangoon goes back in forth in the air. I haven't massed my AC there vulerable to the dreaded bombardment groups of Brit ships. Last game I was holding my own until the BB force showed up. Even though I sank 2 BB before it got there it still arrived and so pounded my AF and destroyed so many planes on the ground that i never recoverd. I still haven't taken mandalay, just can't get my odds up.
SRA/ Borneo is mine(sort of). His CV's are still in the area some where and have restriced my central advance. If he comes up to stop my norther advance, the LB air may become a problem.
SWPAC/
I have Lunga built to 4 AF, and am taking the rest of the Sol. PM has been rebuilt by Blam0 and has trown out an invasion of Gili Gili. rabaul has been repaired and built up. The KB is operating SW of NG.
Central pacific. /
Small battles around Tarawa. I really haven't been that agressive there and devoted resources there yet[;)][;)]
PI
He still holds manila and a few small islands. Will use some of them as training grounds. This would be gamey except there is no real training program built into the game.
Over all stats Ship Indiv AC indv
Bases
Allies japan Allies/Japan Allies total/a2a/flack/grd/ops Japan
222 226 AKs 96/1 Fighters: Fighters:
Ships sunk AO 6/0 Brewester 339 69/39/12/8/9 A6M2 370/198/0/68/104
218 71 AP 10/19 Buffao 87/49/2/6/20 Ki43b 173/37/0/100/36
AC losses BB 4/0 F4F 79/73/0/0/6 Ki-27 107/41/6/2/58
2432 1527 CVL 0/2 HurricaneII 145/88/0/46/11 Bombers:
Army points DD 14/3 I 153/16 150/97/4/47/5 B5N 125/16/42/39/28
4838 330 MSW 23/11 P-39D 138/36/1/37/48 D3A 105/7/73/0/25
PCtypes 31/8 P-40B 246/165/0/61/21 G3M 75/27/25/5/18
Score SS 14/21 P-40E 205/144/2/47/12 G4M 132/19/47/42/24
6271 12101 TKs 19/2 Bombers Ki-21 99/17/21/26/35
TBD/SBD 125/67/40/9/9 Ki48 76/0/29/14/33
Martins 139/60/39/10/1/10 Ki 51 46/2/31/0/13
LB-30 92/29/5/37/21
Hudsons 80/29/10/26/15
Blem/Beufort 272/123/22/97/32
B-17C-E 144/53/3/47/41
More news later trying to learn to add pictures.
Sadja
This is an update for goinings on in our AAR for march and 1st few days of april. Main conquests are Japan conquers Balikapan on 3/3, Ichang in China finnaly falls on the 5th after 2 mo of battle. Singapore and Battan fall 4/2 and 4/3 respectedly. This leaves him manila and He has only 2 forts left. I saw a lot of subs at manila, I don't know if he was bringing in supplies, removing troops, or both. How do you attack subs? [&:]I did a port attack with no result, I finaly tried ASW patrols and tried to get ASW TF around there, but to late.[:(]
The biggest fight took place around Balikapan. Blam0 got his allied CV force of at least 4 CV's attacked my Mini KB, costing me the Ry and Zu and the Shoho badly damaged. It cost him a bunch of his escorts but I didn't get to many of his bombers. My carriers never launched either do to surprise or might have had my cap % to high. Wasn't worried about his CV's more worried about LB planes. My LB never launched even though they were only 5 hexs away. I did launch against some DD's doing something and hurt a couple of them. This has disrupted my attack against the SRA and delayed it by ?. I have quite a few LB fighters and bombers coming on line and expect them to support the attacks. Manila should fall within a couple of weeks max and ac being used there will also be moved foward.
The other main combat ops are around PM. We have been fighting over this for 6wks and he is back in charge. I used the KB to supress and had inial good results. The pile of destrayed AC there is huge and he has a bunch of dead pilots. But as soon as the KB withdrew to refuel and resupply he reinfored it and the air units at Lae could not keep it supressed. The KB made a raid on Aus between Carins and Townsville. And of course they attacked a TF of destroyers 5 hexs and ignored a bigger TF just 60miles. After 4 days I have showed minimal results except when he attacked and I slaughtered his attack force. A few AKs and some 4 stack DD's.
Blam0 has the Hornet operating in the South Pacific, he raided Tarawa with little result except may be his EX went up. I can't chase 1 carrier around with out using up a lot of fuel and suffering sys damage. I will use the KB to support my objectives(what ever they may be) not sure myself sometimes I'm ADD after all.[:D][:D][:D].
Theaters
China/
Continue fighting around Canton, Changsha, NW of Ichang, E of Yemen. I have done something in last turn that Blam0 hasn't seen yet that may unhing an area. I haven't done what I would consider gamey building a huge 250,000 stack of troops and going from one place to the next. I have divided China and allocated resources and supplies and tried to make the best. That is why I attacked Ichang early, although it doesn't have a resource value it is within range of Chungking and I thought if i defeated that small army early it would free up tropps for Changsha. This happened but just 2 moths later than I expected.
Burma/Malaya
As mentioned Sinapore has fallen and troops are being given brief rest. Rangoon goes back in forth in the air. I haven't massed my AC there vulerable to the dreaded bombardment groups of Brit ships. Last game I was holding my own until the BB force showed up. Even though I sank 2 BB before it got there it still arrived and so pounded my AF and destroyed so many planes on the ground that i never recoverd. I still haven't taken mandalay, just can't get my odds up.
SRA/ Borneo is mine(sort of). His CV's are still in the area some where and have restriced my central advance. If he comes up to stop my norther advance, the LB air may become a problem.
SWPAC/
I have Lunga built to 4 AF, and am taking the rest of the Sol. PM has been rebuilt by Blam0 and has trown out an invasion of Gili Gili. rabaul has been repaired and built up. The KB is operating SW of NG.
Central pacific. /
Small battles around Tarawa. I really haven't been that agressive there and devoted resources there yet[;)][;)]
PI
He still holds manila and a few small islands. Will use some of them as training grounds. This would be gamey except there is no real training program built into the game.
Over all stats Ship Indiv AC indv
Bases
Allies japan Allies/Japan Allies total/a2a/flack/grd/ops Japan
222 226 AKs 96/1 Fighters: Fighters:
Ships sunk AO 6/0 Brewester 339 69/39/12/8/9 A6M2 370/198/0/68/104
218 71 AP 10/19 Buffao 87/49/2/6/20 Ki43b 173/37/0/100/36
AC losses BB 4/0 F4F 79/73/0/0/6 Ki-27 107/41/6/2/58
2432 1527 CVL 0/2 HurricaneII 145/88/0/46/11 Bombers:
Army points DD 14/3 I 153/16 150/97/4/47/5 B5N 125/16/42/39/28
4838 330 MSW 23/11 P-39D 138/36/1/37/48 D3A 105/7/73/0/25
PCtypes 31/8 P-40B 246/165/0/61/21 G3M 75/27/25/5/18
Score SS 14/21 P-40E 205/144/2/47/12 G4M 132/19/47/42/24
6271 12101 TKs 19/2 Bombers Ki-21 99/17/21/26/35
TBD/SBD 125/67/40/9/9 Ki48 76/0/29/14/33
Martins 139/60/39/10/1/10 Ki 51 46/2/31/0/13
LB-30 92/29/5/37/21
Hudsons 80/29/10/26/15
Blem/Beufort 272/123/22/97/32
B-17C-E 144/53/3/47/41
More news later trying to learn to add pictures.
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: march 42
It's only fair that I disclose the maneuver that Sadja was alluding to in his China section of the AAR. He send some small forces around the northern flank of my forces in China to attack the undefended cities in the rear, costing me a good chunk of supply/resources/HI in the process. I had only noticed that this was even possible maybe 2 game weeks ago, and had dispatched some forces to garrison, but now they have been halted to await "further consideration". I need to spend some time tonight looking very hard at how I am defending China. It would not be unfair to say that I have been a bit apathetic, assuming a grind. I clearly need to do something, just not sure what quite yet.
I was obviously quite pleased to have such great success versus the MiniKB. Hopefully, the loss of this will cause many problems down the road [:)]
KB has been quite a thorn in my side in the Coral Sea area. I've been able to bring in some AC (sneak is more like it sometimes), and I should give him a bit of a fight now. The LBA attacks out of Townsville were quite futile, but it was either he shot them down, or they blew up on the ground....either way I was going to lose many of them. My favorite part was when a group of P-39s attacked a DD and got several hits and an internal explosion![8D] While PM was quite the arial battleground, I've been able to repair it and launch some raids from it. Sadja has 2 LCUs stuck outside of Gili Gili, and I've been boming them a bit, not sure if it's worth the effort to send an LCU to deal with them while the region is so hot.
Rangoon is once again taking a pounding from level bombers, but Sadja seems to have quite a few engineers repairing things there, as the damage levels seem to be a bit low. It's costing him zeros though, which is what I like to see.
The CHINESE AF is kicking butt!! Chinese pilots shot down several zeros over Chunking! Several small counter-offensives are planned for China, and I'm sure it's no secret where they will be. China is now my big problem, and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to handle it. I believe that I have enough force, but the issue is how to get it to where it needs to be in time to do any good.
Dutch units in Java and Sumatra are now being supplied directly by the US via the tunnels they have dug during their fortification processes.
Minor attacks in the Central Pacific, just to keep things lively.
Carriers are on a "hush-hush" mission, but they will be heard from.
I was obviously quite pleased to have such great success versus the MiniKB. Hopefully, the loss of this will cause many problems down the road [:)]
KB has been quite a thorn in my side in the Coral Sea area. I've been able to bring in some AC (sneak is more like it sometimes), and I should give him a bit of a fight now. The LBA attacks out of Townsville were quite futile, but it was either he shot them down, or they blew up on the ground....either way I was going to lose many of them. My favorite part was when a group of P-39s attacked a DD and got several hits and an internal explosion![8D] While PM was quite the arial battleground, I've been able to repair it and launch some raids from it. Sadja has 2 LCUs stuck outside of Gili Gili, and I've been boming them a bit, not sure if it's worth the effort to send an LCU to deal with them while the region is so hot.
Rangoon is once again taking a pounding from level bombers, but Sadja seems to have quite a few engineers repairing things there, as the damage levels seem to be a bit low. It's costing him zeros though, which is what I like to see.
The CHINESE AF is kicking butt!! Chinese pilots shot down several zeros over Chunking! Several small counter-offensives are planned for China, and I'm sure it's no secret where they will be. China is now my big problem, and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to handle it. I believe that I have enough force, but the issue is how to get it to where it needs to be in time to do any good.
Dutch units in Java and Sumatra are now being supplied directly by the US via the tunnels they have dug during their fortification processes.
Minor attacks in the Central Pacific, just to keep things lively.
Carriers are on a "hush-hush" mission, but they will be heard from.
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RE: china and battles in early april
My attack in Northern China capturing Langchow and Kungchang by air drop has got to put a dent in his suppy capablity.
Thinking this I started some assults. west of Yenen, Changsha and Canton were all at 0-1 attacks costing me heavy losses(mostly disrupted). battles north of Homan and Canton were succesfull. The next day his assult noth of Homan was repulsed. The auto shock attack across river came into effect.
Burma/rangoon attack were massive. The entire far east air force must be there. The have bombed rangoon airfield big time. My oscars didn't have a chance. There were suppose to be zeros thier but the only were represented by 1 plane. I was flying them high and the bombers came in at 6000 ft.
PM is back and is a force. It will take a big combined campaign to restore the intitative there. Jap inteligence is horrible and I have lost a bunch of I boats with AC. These are very valuable assets. They have to be moved around to keep from becoming ASW magnets.
I still don't know how to attack subs going in and out of manila. I see them but every thing I have tried so they have gotten away.
Waiting for Blam0 turn now.
Sadja
Thinking this I started some assults. west of Yenen, Changsha and Canton were all at 0-1 attacks costing me heavy losses(mostly disrupted). battles north of Homan and Canton were succesfull. The next day his assult noth of Homan was repulsed. The auto shock attack across river came into effect.
Burma/rangoon attack were massive. The entire far east air force must be there. The have bombed rangoon airfield big time. My oscars didn't have a chance. There were suppose to be zeros thier but the only were represented by 1 plane. I was flying them high and the bombers came in at 6000 ft.
PM is back and is a force. It will take a big combined campaign to restore the intitative there. Jap inteligence is horrible and I have lost a bunch of I boats with AC. These are very valuable assets. They have to be moved around to keep from becoming ASW magnets.
I still don't know how to attack subs going in and out of manila. I see them but every thing I have tried so they have gotten away.
Waiting for Blam0 turn now.
Sadja
Your never Lost if you don't care where you are.
Tom Massie GPAA
Tom Massie GPAA
RE: china and battles in early april
What Sadja did not tell you is that he seems to have split the KB to launch raids against Luganville. The other half is headed north, and may dock at Rabaul, or head "elsewhere" to cover for the missing MiniKB. It will be quite interesting to see how the CV TF near Luganvill handles all of the LBA I have there (should they actually decide to launch any attacks.
I have made those AC carrying submersible pests a priority for exactly the same reason that they are so valuable, and it seems to be paying off in the form of a lack of good intel. I'm starting to rotate ships into refit for their 4/42 upgrades, so this will likely slow down the fearsome tempo of my naval operations (inside joke here).
Nells out of Lunga have begun to make their presence known. I've got a little something that should take care of that for a bit...hopefully[:)]
Rangoon is a big priority for me. I have split my LBA to attack there, and the forces beseiging Mandalay, which right now amount to a Single division, a reinforced regiment and a tank regiment. The forces hearty Brits inside of Mandalay have continued to get stronger with the arrival of the Burma HQ, and with their new commander do not see how the city can be taken or reduced with the enemy forces as they are.
I'm starting to feel the pinch of the many AKs I sacrificed to keep PM supplied while it was under heavy attack. While I'm sure that this was the proper action, I need to focus my supply movements more carefully at least in the near-term.
North China is problematic at this point, but I am not quite willing to abandon it yet. The next couple of turns should provide some indicators as to what will happen there. It may behoove me to consolidate my defenses and counter-attack selectively.
I have made those AC carrying submersible pests a priority for exactly the same reason that they are so valuable, and it seems to be paying off in the form of a lack of good intel. I'm starting to rotate ships into refit for their 4/42 upgrades, so this will likely slow down the fearsome tempo of my naval operations (inside joke here).
Nells out of Lunga have begun to make their presence known. I've got a little something that should take care of that for a bit...hopefully[:)]
Rangoon is a big priority for me. I have split my LBA to attack there, and the forces beseiging Mandalay, which right now amount to a Single division, a reinforced regiment and a tank regiment. The forces hearty Brits inside of Mandalay have continued to get stronger with the arrival of the Burma HQ, and with their new commander do not see how the city can be taken or reduced with the enemy forces as they are.
I'm starting to feel the pinch of the many AKs I sacrificed to keep PM supplied while it was under heavy attack. While I'm sure that this was the proper action, I need to focus my supply movements more carefully at least in the near-term.
North China is problematic at this point, but I am not quite willing to abandon it yet. The next couple of turns should provide some indicators as to what will happen there. It may behoove me to consolidate my defenses and counter-attack selectively.
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